Education Driving Agriculture-Led Economic and Social Transformation in Africa

Swanepoel, Frans; Stroebel, Aldo; Mentz-Coetzee, Melody

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40566-3_5

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“…(2017) and Badiane et al. (2021) argue that the success of this process depends on (positive) integration into the global economy via intra‐African and international trade (e.g., Alagidede et al., 2020; Sunge & Ngepah, 2020), as well as on overcoming weaknesses such as poor land quality (Traub et al., 2014; Lipper and Benton, 2020); water scarcity (Chitonge, 2020); weak human capital (Asongu & Odhiambo, 2019; Swanepoel et al., 2020); weak physical infrastructure (Edeme et al., 2020; Omotoso et al., 2020); and weak institutional infrastructure, weak governance and political capture (e.g., McKay & Thorbecke, 2019; Noubissi & Njangang, 2020; Rockmore, 2020; Wanjiku et al., 2020). There are also social pathologies such as high levels of crime against person and property (Bunei & Barasa, 2017 Seiyefa, 2019; Bunei et al., 2016), gender discrimination (e.g., Hollis & Hankhouse, 2019; Muluneh et al., 2020; Alesina et al., 2021; Arisukwu et al., 2021), etc.…”

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African agricultural development: How are we contributing?

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2022

Agricultural Economics

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A database of journal articles and conference papers that cover the economics of agricultural development in Africa during the period 2016–2020 was compiled. These papers are first described in terms of demographic and bibliometric criteria, followed by a network analysis of the main centers of origin and of influence of this research. Finally, three different processes were used to test the policy relevance of the work. These include a simple enumeration of the policy recommendations in a sample of the papers, a megatrend analysis, and a comparison of their focus with the standard narrative of the role of agriculture in economic development. The results show that a large proportion of the literature is not forward‐looking, and is weak on policy relevance. We ignore a number of issues that engage the attention of those concerned with implementing structural change in agriculture across the many very different but very real natural resource, political, social, economic, and technological environments around the continent.

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